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WIKE'S PRESIDENTIAL HONOUR: AMAECHI PROTESTS, LAMBASTS OSINBAJO, DENIED ACCESS TO BUHARI President Muhammadu Buhari's decision to honour Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State with “Distinguished Award in Infrastructure Delivery” at the forthcoming Nigeria Excellence in Public Service Award, did not sit well with Rotimi Amaechi and his followers in Rivers State.  The former minister of transportation who had visited the the president at the Villa shortly before the nomination of Wike demanded to see Buhari again to express his displeasure over the development, but he was told his request to see the president cannot be granted now. Sources close to APC National Secretariat hinted that, having failed to see the president; Mr. Amaechi took his protestations to the National Chairman of All Progressives Congress, Abdullahi Adamu. Amaechi told Adamu that honouring Wike is insensitive to the plights of Rivers APC members and a big blow to their quest to wrestle power from the Peoples De...